I mean, if you try to “scam” the gov, you can clone some codeberg repo to github, rename it, rewrite history to make the commits look like you did everything and then tell the gov “look at how much work I volunteered”. At least in germany, there are currently not enough public workers so many little things go unchecked.

afaik the Ruhr Universiry of Bochum has an intranet that connects the uni and all the dorms. And they selfhost a couple of services, like email, git and pastebin. You can see a line going to the dorms on the graph.

https://noc.rub.de/web/services/start

https://nedi.noc.rub.de/netweather/

a git history is easily fabricated. you can freely edit it, remove entries or write into it whatever you want, including impersonating other users and fabricating datetime

https://github.com/Amog-OS/AmogOS/commit/4f503a0

I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.

Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you’re running.

If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don’t know how to limit is GPU compute.

From my experience with windows:

• you plugin new hardware and boot
• it doesn’t work
• 15 min looking for drivers online on obtuse websites
• suddenly the device works, because windows downloaded and installed something in the background

so more like - plug & i have no idea whats happening & play

if the government fucks around and gets Signal banned

you can use threema or wire or something else will become available on the appstore

Yes, but how though?

We’ve stopped chat control over and over for years. But now they seem to have went through with it.

Usually the linked website has instructions. Now it simply says:

About the Vote: The Council mandate was today endorsed by the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER). About the Procedure: The text will now be negotiated with the European Parliament. The Parliament’s mandate (adopted in Nov 2023) explicitly rules out indiscriminate scanning and demands targeted surveillance based on suspicion.

If there is an organized protest in front of the parlament, link it please.

Whats the difference between sideloading and installing? I don’t get it tbh.

On windows for example, it is the norm to go online to a website, download an exe and double click it - instead of going to the microsoft store. And both are ways to install software. Neither way is doing it sideways.

But also

I can easily see fork related infrastructure for end users making it really eash or automatic to keep up with that cycle.

There could be a store that installs software from github (there already is) and additionally tells you “hey this app you have got forked and the fork has more development happening, do you want to switch to that one and migrate all your settings? y/n”

The current proposal as far as I understand it is that they will tell a company/service to “voluntaraly” scan the content.

Then an open source project that is forced to comply can just stop development and be forked on the last commit and shrug shoulders.

Which will buy enough time, because legally making those requests will take time and work. I can easily see fork related infrastructure for end users making it really eash or automatic to keep up with that cycle.

But even better would be to develop open source hardware based communication solutions, that don’t have the ability to add a backdoor through a software patch. Think like a pager with all the security and privacy bells and whistles.

overwriting [] seems like readability nightmare.

Won’t something like this work more clearly?

extension NullCall<T> on T? {
  R? let<R>(R Function(T) f) => this == null ? null : f(this as T);
}

void example() {  
  int? n;  
  n.let(math.sqrt);
}  

This kind of immitates Kotlin let.

you bought one? Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?

mainstream

is the keyword here. Mainstream is really big.

They come for the lions share first. You do nothing because you think you’re unaffected. Then later they will come for you. And nobody will do anything for you either.

Of course, professional criminals like yourself (sarcasm) will find a way to escape the law. But I doubt it’s nice to live on the edge of society like that anyway, being unable to interact with most services.

a long runway that allows us to become profitable when needed

Switch to self-hosting headscale when they enshittify in an attempt to become profitable, duh